ANIM321-Creative Development for Filmmaking Animation-Story

Here's a description of what happens in my story:

A bride, Risa, is unhappy with the arranged marriage she is in, and questions the idea of love and whether there was such a thing. She is prepared to leave for the shrine where her wedding is to take place, but before entering the car her attendant slips the bride a note, claiming it is from Risa's lover. During the trip to the shrine, Risa opens the note, finding that it is indeed a note from her lover, telling her to not marry and run away with him. Risa finally arrives at the shrine and as she looks upon the shrine, a voice calls out to her. She turns her head in the direction of the voice and sees that it is her lover! He holds out his hand out towards her and tells her to hop on his bike and elope with him. Risa is ecstatic and agrees and rides off with her lover, moments before the wedding starts.

Soon after, a rustling is heard from the bushes by the shrine gates. Out pops a shrine fox who had just witnessed the bride runaway from the wedding. She takes the headpiece that had fallen from the bride's head in her getaway and brings it to the head shrine maiden of the shrine. There she explains to the shrine maiden, Mitsu, that the bride had run away, and that the shrine would be in big trouble if the wedding does not go on. Mitsu is not too worried about this and decides that this situation is quite amusing and decides that it would be more amusing and funny to disguise herself as the bride, go through with the wedding and live a few decades with the husband and leave when she got bored. The wedding goes on without a hitch and Mitsu, who is successfully transformed as Risa, and her husband, Ryu, start a life together.

Newlywed life is great for the two. Mitsu and Ryu easily fall into their roles as housewife and breadwinner. One day, Mitsu is bedridden with a very high fever and Ryu is there to take care of her. As he is changing the towel on her forehead, he notices fox ears suddenly popping up on Mitsu's head, replacing the human ears he's so used to seeing. Surprised and confused, Ryu rubs his eyes and looks upon Mitsu to see a human form and no animal ears. The first time this happens he thinks nothing of it, thinking that it was just a trick of the light, but from then on decides to keep quiet and observe for now.

As the years by there are moments where Mitsu has come close to letting her disguise slip. She thinks that Ryu does not know of her true identity when in fact he had been suspecting and had already confirmed Mitsu's true identity, and does not mind at all. One night as Ryu is asleep, Mitsu is awake and thinking about how she feels strange in regards to Ryu and how these feelings of hers annoy her. Finally, she comes to the conclusion that perhaps she's just getting bored and decides that it is time to leave. That morning, Ryu wakes up to find that the bed is empty. He thinks nothing of it until he goes downstairs for breakfast and sees a prepared meal, a wedding ring and a note. Ryu finally realizes that Mitsu had finally decided to leave.

Both Mitsu and Ryu continue on with their lives, with Mitsu returning to her duties as the shrine's guardian and Ryu continuing to work. During the time of their separation, Mitsu feels regret because soon after returning to the shrine, she had realized that the feelings she felt for Ryu was love and she wanted to see him again but was afraid to. Meanwhile, Ryu decides to search for Mitsu because he feels that he cannot live without her because everything reminds him of her, that she had just left without telling him why and most importantly because he loves her, even with the lie she told.

One day one of Ryu's coworkers, who knows about Ryu's problem suggests to try and go back to the place where he'd first met Mitsu and perhaps he might find her there. Ryu follows his friend's advice and decides to go the shrine where he had his wedding the next day. He enters the shrine and sees a person who looks similar to the Risa he knows, and instantly figures out that the person he is seeing is the one he is looking for. Ryu goes up to Mitsu and tells her his feelings about her and that he knew all along that she was not Risa, but still fell in love with her and wants to continue living their lives together. After hearing Ryu's feelings, Mitsu also confesses her feelings and they both reintroduce themselves, this time with Mitsu using her true identity.

The story ends with Mitsu and Ryu getting married at the shrine again on a sunny day, when all of a sudden it starts showering during the day and Mitsu mentions how the rain is out to ruin her wedding, while Ryu comments on how it's probably because its a 'fox's wedding'.